Michael Golemo Vita

Michael Golemo
Conductor

Michael Golemo

Michael Golemo is the Director of Bands and Chair of the Department of Music and Theatre at Iowa State University. In addition to conducting the Wind Ensemble and teaching courses in music education and conducting, Dr. Golemo oversees a program of nine bands. A native of Chicago, he received his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University where he studied conducting with John P. Paynter and saxophone with Frederick L. Hemke. He completed his doctorate in wind conducting at Michigan State University. He previously served as Assistant Director of Bands at The University of Akron (OH), and prior to that as Director of Bands at Albion College (MI).

Under his direction, the Iowa State University Wind Ensemble has performed numerous times for the Iowa Bandmasters Association conventions and in Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and Omaha’s Holland Center for the Performing Arts. They have also had four performing tours of Europe, including stops in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Munich and Stüttgart.

With over 400 instrumental arrangements, transcriptions and compositions to his credit, Dr. Golemo has had works performed by a variety of performers and ensembles – from Carnegie Hall to Russia – including Louie Bellson, Wynton Marsalis, Anita Baker, Simon Estes, William Warfield, the Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. His music is published by Ludwig Music Publishers, Dorn Publications, Santa Barbara Music Publishers, Daehn Publications, and Great Works Publishing.

Dr. Golemo is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician and adjuciator, and holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association (state chair), the National Band Association (state chair), Iowa Bandmasters Association, Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honorary, Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honorary, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Beta Mu Bandmasters, and is an honorary member of Cardinal Key Honor Society and both Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi.

He is a past President of the Big Twelve Band Directors Association and a past National President of Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity. He is the conductor of the Ames Municipal Band, and an annual guest conductor of the Mount Prospect (IL) Community Band. In 2007, Dr. Golemo was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association.